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That's another discussion birth from G/FreeBSD problems :) |
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First of all, a bit of introduction on what libintl and iconv are supposed to |
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mean: |
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- libintl is a library which takes care of providing i18n support at runtime |
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in applications. This is provided by glibc and probably uclibc on Linux |
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systems. |
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- iconv() is a system function which provides charset conversions to programs. |
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This is provided by glibc and uclibc probably, and by other libcs in other |
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systems (aix?). *BSD libcs doesn't provide it directly, and some programs |
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depends on GNU's implementation. For that, libiconv package was created and |
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currently is used by G/FBSD systems. |
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Now, many ebuilds needs to add to their dependency libiconv and gettext (to |
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RDEPEND not just DEPEND) when they aren't used in glibc/uclibc systems. |
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As this is nasty to add, a solution could be to create two more virtuals, |
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provided by glibc and uclibc on Linux systems and by profile on OSX (at least |
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for libiconv I think it's already in place), and provided also by gettext and |
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libiconv in G/Fbsd (for example). |
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How good this solution can be? |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò |
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Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64) |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ |
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